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Avoiding Collateral Damage: Protecting people, not just systems

The internet is a great opportunity, but also a great...

The Happiness of the Half-Cyborg

"The future is already here, it is just not evenly...

Proof by Computer and Proof by Human

The idea of a proof as a simple, easily-checked method...

How computers get it wrong: 2+2 = 5

When lives depend on calculations, human error can kill. From...

Arithmetic by Computer and by Human

Long multiplication, long division and logarithms are, for many, dim-remembered...

Current Trends in European and Middle Eastern Mortality

Early Mathematics Day: Solving the mystery of the World's First Computer

In 1900 a group of sponge divers blown off course...

Indra’s Pearls: Geometry and Symmetry

An explanation of the first computer exploration of Felix Klein's vision of fractals in the 1980s, and what mathematics has gained by it.

Avoiding death by computer

One of the reasons why people make mistakes is that...

Topics in the History of Financial Mathematics: Mathematics and Foreign Exchange

This is the third part of a study day. It...